Alexander Kluge at UCL

Publication date:
18 September 2014

Friday 3 October - Screening: Alexander Kluge will premiere excerpts from recent works, including: Money, not Gold or Love: Elfriede Jelinek, Richard Wagner and the Financial Crisis. Followed by a discussion with Sarah James (UCL) and Frederic Schwartz (UCL)

Professor Tamar Garb Elected as Fellow of the British Academy

Publication date:
31 July 2014

The Department is immensely proud to announce
that Tamar Garb, Durning Lawrence Professor in History of Art, has been made a
Fellow of the British Academy. She is one of 42 highly distinguished academics in
the UK from 19 universities elected in recognition of their outstanding
research. Professor Garb joins the Academy’s Section of History of Art and
Music , which includes many of the world’s foremost scholars in the field.

Graduate Bursary Support Scheme 2014

Publication date:
3 June 2014

The Graduate Support Scheme 2014 continues UCL’s
tradition of making high quality education accessible. A total of 93
bursaries, consisting of a fee waiver and a living allowance of £10,000,
are available for students from underprivileged backgrounds on a range
of courses, including the MA in History of Art. There
is also childcare support to assist parents whilst studying, and a range
of other activities including summer schools for most participating
programmes.

UCL Students win 2014 AAH Dissertation Awards

Publication date:
3 June 2014

UCL
students have been highly successful in this year’s Association of Art
Historians Dissertation Prizes, winning both the undergraduate and postgraduate
awards. Congratulations to Timothy Davies (BA, 2013), who has been awarded the
undergraduate prize for his essay ‘Parts and Labour: Fabricating Donald Judd
and Carl Andre in a Changing Industrial Context’, and to Emily Doucet (MA,
2013), who has been awarded the postgraduate prize for her dissertation
‘Anticipating Machines Heavier than Air: Nadar, Photography, and the Objects of
Technology’. Another UCL student, Rebecca Whiteley (MA, 2013) was runner-up for
the postgraduate prize. The winning students were presented with their prizes,
awarded in association with Thames and Hudson, at the AAH Annual Conference at
the Royal College of Art in April 2014.

Phyllida Barlow in conversation with Briony Fer and Fiona Bradley, 9 June 2014

Publication date:
3 June 2014

June 9th, 5:30 pm UCL, Pearson Lecture Theatre, Gower Street

Phyllida Barlow (born 1944) studied at Chelsea School of Art, London
(1960–63) and then the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1963–66) where she
later became a Professor. Recent international major exhibitions include Venice
Biennale (2013), Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
(2013), Des Moines Art Centre, Des Moines (2013), Norton Museum of Art, West
Palm Beach (2013), New Museum, New York (2012), Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
(2012), Kunstverein Nurnberg, Germany (2011), BAWAG
Contemporary Vienna, Austria (2010), and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
(2004). She became a Royal Academician in 2011 and lives and works in London.

Professor Rose Marie San Juan - Inaugural Lecture, 13 May 2014

BOOM! Growth, Form and Sustainable Bodies 1946–67, 4-5 April 2014

Publication date:
25 March 2014

This conference
is organised to coincide with the Richard Hamilton retrospective currently at
the Tate Modern, which includes the first ever reconstruction of his exhibit
Growth and Form (ICA, 1951). Growth and Form negotiated a problematic that in
the two decades after the end of WWII preoccupied different strands of artistic
and architectural research across Europe. Namely, the effects of booming
expansion – economic, demographic, urban, technological, material, visual
– on the embodied subject within the context of a spreading capitalist
pan-humanism championed abroad by the US. Some of the key historical
coordinates that this conferences sets out to engage with in relation to
cultural production include: the so-call consumer-led miracle in Europe, the
international context of Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man (1955), the baby
boom, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first tests of the H-bomb, postwar
developments in cybernetics and artificial intelligence, futurology and
technological dystopia.

Pop Art and Beyond, 20 March 2014

Derek Jarman study day 13 February

Publication date:
27 January 2014

Derek Jarman: Sites and Spaces.

UCL will commemorate the twentieth
anniversary of Derek
Jarman’s death with a study day on 13 February
2014 focused on the spaces of his life and work. Through talks, readings,
installations and screenings we will consider the sites Jarman inhabited as he
produced his art, films, writing, gardens and activism, including the Slade
where he studied between 1963-67. Which places and material conditions
attracted him and how did they provide the field for his experimental and
radical practices? The day will be structured around different spatial scales,
from the urban to the rural.

Nikos Stangos Memorial Lecture

The Congress for Curious People

Publication date:
13 August 2013

A
Festival of Spectacular Cultures

August 29th – September 8th 2013

From Fun Fairs to Freak Shows… Magic Lantern Lectures to Flea
Circuses… Cyclopian Artists and Mediumistic Drawings to Severed Heads and
Anthropomorphic Taxidermy… Riotous Fireworks and the bright lights of an
otherworldly Blackpool to the dark recesses of Old Operating Theatres and
Clandestine Archives.